CHAP. 44.—CANCAMUM AND TARUM.
From the confines of the country which produces cinnamon
and cassia, cancamum[1] and tarum[2] are imported; but these
substances are brought by way of the Nabatæan Troglodytæ,
a colony of the Nabatæi.
1. A gum resin of some unknown species, but not improbably, Fée
thinks, the produce of some of the Amyrides. Sprengel thinks that it was
produced from the Gardenia gummifera.
2. Aloe-wood.